X-Men: Apocalypse will feature some of the cast of the original X-Men trilogy, after all. Simon Kinberg describes the Fantastic Four reboot as "grounded, real, gritty." And promos from the new seasons of True Blood and Witches of East End. Spoilers now!

Top image: X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Apocalypse/Gambit

Writer Simon Kinberg talked about the tease of Apocalypse in the after-credits sequence of X-Men: Days of Future Past:

At some point in making the movie we talked about what the potential next film would be, and we all really gravitated towards Apocalypse. We really wanted it to be more for the core fans than for the broad audience; to be something that was a genuine tease, and almost mysterious to mainstream audiences who don't know the comics well, so they're thinking, "What's that?"

He also said that the plan was for X-Men: Apocalypse was for it to focus primarily on the First Class cast, but also to have some of the original cast involved. As for Gambit, Kinberg talked a little bit about casting Channing Tatum:

Gambit is still in-motion and being figured out. Channing made it known that it was a character that he loved and would love to play, and all the people who work on the X-Men movies are huge fans of his, so the notion of him playing it is exciting. I'm more fascinated by anti-heroes, and Gambit is one of those. I don't know why he wasn't explored in the original X-Men movies. Maybe the reason why was because they wanted to focus on Rogue/Bobby or the platonic Rogue/Wolverine relationship, and maybe there were too many similarities between Wolverine and Gambit, so in order to make it a Wolverine-centric franchise they had to cut him loose.

Fantastic Four

In the same interview, Kinberg talked about Josh Trank's vision of the Fantastic Four reboot, including every reboot's favorite buzzwords, "grounded, real, gritty." As for the tone, Kinberg said:

The tone of this movie will feel as unique as when you saw Iron Man, X-Men, or Batman Begins for the first time. It's not as goofy as the first movies; it has humor in it, but the humor is much more real and comes from character, not pratfall jokes. It's a much more dramatic film than it is a comedy. I would say it falls somewhere between Raimi's first couple of Spider-Man movies and Chronicle.

He also talked about casting Michael B. Jordan and how he's been doing on set:

We knew casting an African-American Human Torch would be news, but I can tell you it's something that Stan Lee loves, and I can also tell you that having been on set and seeing Michael bring him to life, he's really spectacular. He's doing something really cool with the character that I think will become the iconic Johnny Storm.